Articles from The Tally Room

The draft boundaries for the next Northern Territory Legislative Assembly election in 2024 were released yesterday. Changes were mostly restricted to the Darwin-Palmerston area, and no seats have changed hands.

There was just one change outside of the northern urban area. An area around Timber Creek was moved from Daly into Gwojato the west of Katherine. This area is quite large in terms of land mass but only contained a few hundred voters.

I’ve now finished my dataset for the 2023 NSW state election and I’ve added it to the data repository.

The repository now has data for four successive NSW state elections, in addition to seven Queensland elections, five Victorian elections, six Western Australian elections, six South Australian elections, five New Zealand elections, and three ACT and NT elections respectively.

As I started to put my mind to the upcoming Voice referendum, I realised there was a surprising absence of data on the results of previous referendums. A number of people were trying to track down electorate-level results for the 1967 referendum (although as the referendum with the highest Yes vote, it’s not the most interesting to analyse) and it just wasn’t available on the internet.

Voters in three Tasmanian Legislative Council divisions are voting today for members to represent those seats for the next six years.

I won’t be liveblogging tonight as I have another commitment. If you want to follow the results live, I recommend you follow Kevin Bonham’s blog.

Meanwhile you can check out my guide to these elections.